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Wartime Kiss
Alexander Nemerov
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Bildende Kunst
Beschreibung
A deeply personal meditation on the haunting power of American photos and films of the 1940s
Wartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a stunning reinterpretation of one of the most famous photos of all time, Alfred Eisenstaedt's image of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day, Alexander Nemerov goes on to examine an array of mostly forgotten images and movie episodes—from a photo of Jimmy Stewart and Olivia de Havilland lying on a picnic blanket in the Santa Barbara hills to scenes from such films as Twelve O'Clock High and Hold Back the Dawn. Erotically charged and bearing traces of trauma even when they seem far removed from the war, these photos and scenes seem to hold out the promise of a palpable and emotional connection to those years.
Through a series of fascinating stories, Nemerov reveals the surprising background of these bits of film and discovers unexpected connections between the war and Hollywood, from an obsession with aviation to Anne Frank's love of the movies. Beautifully written and illustrated, Wartime Kiss vividly evokes a world in which Margaret Bourke-White could follow a heroic assignment photographing a B-17 bombing mission over Tunis with a job in Hollywood documenting the filming of a war movie. Ultimately this is a book about history as a sensuous experience, a work as mysterious, indescribable, and affecting as a novel by W. G. Sebald.
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Margaret Bourke-White, Michelangelo Antonioni, Lady, Be Good (musical), Eddie Muller, North Africa, John Swope (photographer), Marx Brothers, Joan Fontaine, Ann Carter, The Curse of the Cat People, Hold Back the Dawn, Writing, Cary Grant, Howard Hughes, Report from the Aleutians, The Dark Corner, Princess O'Rourke, Howard Hawks, Tamara Toumanova, Bosley Crowther, Patchwork, Olivia de Havilland, Darryl F. Zanuck, Instant, Priscilla Lane, Bomb bay, Dr. Strangelove, Veronica Lake, Footage, John Steinbeck, Princeton University Press, Roland Barthes, Joseph Cornell, Arsenic and Old Lace (play), Getty Images, William Wyler, Eloquence, Rosie the Riveter, Memphis Belle (aircraft), Geoffrey de Havilland, Los Angeles Times, Top Gun, Donna Reed, Twelve O'Clock High, Seminar, The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series), Anne Frank, Aircraft, Toby Jug, The New York Times, James Agee, Enola Gay, Stardom, Sy Bartlett, Jack Warner (actor), Bertolt Brecht, I Wanted Wings, Intercom, Nickname, Paulette Goddard, Government Girl, Mr., Combat Mission, Photography, Wings of the Navy, Toner, Bomb, Erskine Caldwell, Phonograph, Linhof